ADAM TOOZE

@SteveGreenleaf thanks.

"At each point in post-9/11 story big US decisions have been based on conditions on ground — the ground in Washington." But "US presidents come

"When America makes mistakes, the world becomes more dangerous, and when the world is more dangerous, the place to be is American assets.” For a

"In Nimroz, a southern province that is a market hub for opium and illegal drugs, only 9 per cent ($5.1m) of the Taliban’s finances were

"evacuation flights resume Militants seek to maintain stability but banks and markets remain closed in Kabul” Very @FT headline this! ft.com/content/7f0342… https://t.co/eOHurs3FrR

RT @ChloeNCornish: UN warns of imminent health and water crisis in Lebanon as power shortages hit vital services: "Electricité du Liban (ED…

A beautiful thread this from @LalehKhalili on the first wave of Afghan refugees in Iran in the early 1980s. twitter.com/LalehKhalili/s…

Chartbook Top Links #12 just dropped. An effort to pull together some of the more illuminating coverage on Afghanistan of the last few days. adamtooze.substack.com

RT @gyude_moore: Covid Vaccines Produced in Africa Are Being Exported to Europe – "Johnson & Johnson is sending shots from South Africa to…

If anyone continues to track FX markets in a consistently interesting way @TheStalwart , it is @marcmakingsense twitter.com/marcmakingsens…

RT @AlexKokcharov: On this day in 1998, #Russia experienced sovereign default, which caused a massive economic crisis. It was part of the E…

RT @ronaldpint: @adam_tooze @aeleeds @cbeyzad @DanielaGabor @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil Great thread! Thank you…

RT @dmwoodruff: Someone's dyspeptic comment on Åslund begins a massive thread (w/ many branches) chez @adam_tooze on Russian transition to…

RT @leopoldasch: Keep coming back to this graph, can’t get over it. Number of German main battle tanks went from ~5,000 in the 90s to

RT @thebafflermag: In 2016, @TimothyS wrote a history of counterinsurgency strategy, wherein a group of generals, think tank liberals, and…

@etbadabim @tomdrabowicz @LalehKhalili Oh that’s good!

OMG ….. Truly, thank you! twitter.com/s_biar/status/…

@etbadabim @tomdrabowicz @LalehKhalili Bluffing on twitter ….;) a dangerous game. You gonna get called!

RT @AndyLangenkamp: .⁦@adam_tooze⁩: The basic fact of our world is its multipolarity. The China-sceptics may be right – China may never ove…

Ahhh …. Some context on the earlier BHL insanity @LalehKhalili twitter.com/DanielZamoraV/…

@michaeljswalker I agree this is a really interesting question. Perhaps @pseudoerasmus has a view? His thread on politics of successive regimes in Afghanistan earlier today

@aeleeds @DanielaGabor @cbeyzad @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil In any case, feelings aside, it is clearly time to wrap this fascinating conversation.

@aeleeds @DanielaGabor @cbeyzad @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil Every conversation on twitter has that quality – intimate and very public. I did not take @aeleeds

@aeleeds @DanielaGabor @cbeyzad @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil To be clear @aeleeds is right. I asked him to contribute to the conversation on Russia in

@aeleeds @DanielaGabor @cbeyzad @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil I know you are pissed off, but seriously Adam simmer down.

@aeleeds @cbeyzad @DanielaGabor @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil Can we all chill. Can we also recognize that 1990s IMF stuff, conditionality etc is not antiquarian

Folks really need to check out @DanielaGabor staggering book on 1990s: Central Banking and Financialization: A Romanian Account of how Eastern Europe became Subprime (Studies

@cbeyzad @DanielaGabor @aeleeds @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil amazon.com/Central-Bankin…

@DanielaGabor @aeleeds @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil So sorry @DanielaGabor I am sure that was not Adam Leeds’ intention. In any case, you know how

@DanielaGabor @aeleeds @BuddyYakov @dmwoodruff @csissoko @crmiller1 @irl_neil Please don’t Daniela. In what sense is macro not being taken seriously? Adam Leeds is just offering a

RT @TheStalwart: Am I mistaken or did we used to talk a lot more about currency markets on fintwit? These days there's plenty of rates

Can I reinforce @rauchway recommendation. Elizabeth Sanders’s Roots of Reform is ESSENTIAL reading on early history of Fed. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… twitter.com/rauchway/statu…

Is BHL losing his mind, or am I misunderstanding him? Is his claim that Taliban are some kind of peripheral backlash against true power, which

RT @shashj: Interesting guy to serve as interim president in Taliban-dominated government. Attended @BritishArmy staff college in 1966-67.…

RT @70sBachchan: 34/ A few weeks ago, @adam_tooze asked a question: "What do you do if you can see the end of your world approaching?

RT @Ted_Underwood: I recommend @HistDem's article about "The Revival of Quantification" in history. Among other things, it does a great job…